The Centre for Non Party Politics in a statement on Saturday made much of the initiative taken by Professor Muhammad Yunus-led interim government in rebuilding the country as a non-sectarian liberal welfare state...
The Dhaka University vice-chancellor, Niaz Ahmed Khan, said on Thursday that the future of politics on campus should be decided based on societal decision.
Students of the University of Dhaka on Thursday submitted a memorandum to the vice-chancellor, demanding ban on politics of teachers, students, officers, and employees of the university on the campus.聽...
Calling for an end to the politics of vendetta, Jamaat-e-Islami amir Shafiqur Rahman on Wednesday said that his party forgave all other political parties and it had no complaint against anyone...
The authorities of Rajshahi College on Tuesday decided to suspend all kinds of political activities on the college campus and hostels for an indefinite period....
AT THE outset I want to beg your indulgence and forgive me for a somewhat misleading title, 鈥楾he Role of BDS in the Struggle for Palestine鈥�. A better title might have been 鈥楾he politics of BDS and the struggle for Palestine.鈥� What I want to do tonight is to go back to the basics, as it were, and think about how BDS fits into the long history of the struggle for self-determination in Palestine...
The authorities of Dhaka Medical College, Chittagong Medical College, and Noakhali Science and Technology University banned politics on their campuses through separate orders on Saturday...
THE move to ban student politics in two public universities appears shortsighted and worrying. The Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology and Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University have decided to ban student politics on campus. The decision came after the student protests had led to the fall of the Awami League鈥檚 authoritarian...
Two public universities, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology and Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, banned politics on the campuses following students鈥� demand...
ON AUGUST 5, former prime minister Sheikh Hasina boarded a Bangladesh Air Force C-130J military transport in a hurry and fled to Hindon Air Force base, outside Delhi. Her plane was refuelled and reports said that she intended to fly on either to the United Kingdom (her niece, Tulip Siddiq is a minister in the new Labour government), Finland...
IN A defining shift for British politics, the centre-left Labour Party has clinched a resounding victory, marking its dramatic comeback after a devastating defeat just five years...
Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader said that BNP was doing politics over the illness of Khaleda Zia...
Grassroots politicians at a convention on Saturday called for keeping space for dialogue in politics to avoid conflict for unity and solidarity among all political parties...
WHAT compels a mob to burn someone to death? What explains such amplified levels of anger that an accusation against some person from a marginalised group leads to a lynching?...
WE LIVE in a world of make-believe politics, a world where strings pulled in the interests of the super-rich are ever more visible....
Chief election commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal on Monday said that elections in the country are not being participatory due to a crisis in politics...
Politicians and academics on Saturday at a discussion said that the economy of the country was facing a serious crisis for criminalisation of politics and...
THE Israeli-Hamas war is a complex, tragic, and enduring issue in contemporary global politics. The South African government has always expressed deep concern over Israel鈥檚 ruthless military operations against the Palestinian people. Indeed, the governing party, the African National Congress, has a long history of solidarity and sympathy for the Palestinian struggle...
AN ABNORMAL increase in the moveable and immovable assets of public representatives and public office holders has for long been an issue of concern. Such an abnormal increase in wealth certainly shows an association between tenure in office and a rapid increase in income and wealth, suggesting corrupt practices...
FOR overwhelming western political analysts, journalists, scientists, etc, the disappearance of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1990-91 was symbolised overdramatically by the physical destruction of the Berlin Wall followed by the...
AN INCREASE in the moveable assets of candidates re-running for the position of the chair in the upazila council elections in the first phase that take place today, as Transparency International Bangladesh findings show, and an issue that...
THIS is not a headline to capture public attention but to describe the case of Indian politician Arvind Kejriwal of the Aam Admi Party, now in prison on corruption charges and the accusation that he was using his ailment as an excuse to seek...
Fiction writer and essayist Faizul Islam has said that writers consciously or unconsciously explore politics in their works.
It鈥檚 not that the output of such democratic politics cannot be revisited. If some members of the community feel that they need to revisit the ban, the process is open...
NELSON Mandela described 鈥榚ducation as the most powerful weapon to change the world.鈥� John Dewey said, 鈥楨ducation is not just preparation for life; education is life itself.鈥� Bangladeshis are watching...
SECULAR politics represents a decisive ideological stance. Such politics may not be expected to show an infatuation with any religion, religious views, or phenomena. In its firm...
The High Court coming to allow activities of all political organisations on the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology campus by granting a stay on the decision...
The students of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and the ruling party鈥檚 student wing Bangladesh Chhatra League are engaged in protests and counter-protests over the resumption of politics on the university campus.